dimmyadj.
/ˈdɪmi/ Having dimness; more or less dim.
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the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > dimness or absence of brightness > [adjective] > somewhat dim
dimmy1430
dimmish1683
dullish1751
1430 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy i. vi The derkenesse of the dymmy night.
a1576 Lady Abergavenny Praiers in T. Bentley et al. Monument of Matrones (1582) ii. 181 Dazeled with the dimmie and darke mists of Sathan.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. xxv. sig. Yy3v You dimmy clowdes.
1594 R. Carew tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne v. 230 The dimmy ayre now cleerer growes.
1855 R. C. Singleton tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. I. 98 If she [the moon] shall have clipped The darksome ether with a dimmy horn.
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